vestryman
/ves-tree-muhn/US // ˈvɛs tri mən //UK // (ˈvɛstrɪmən) //
执事官,执事,牧师,理事长
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural ves·try·men.
- : a member of a church vestry.
Examples
For some time he was a vestryman of the Episcopal church which the family attend.
To them he was an infinitely superior vestryman with a tremendous power for dispensing coal and food to the poor.
To get into this Vestry in the eminent capacity of Vestryman, gigantic efforts are made, and Herculean exertions used.
Hae ye forgotten that this is Mr. Abner Marchand, your fellow-vestryman an' your senior warden?
Empires are now governed like parishes, and a great statesman is only a select vestryman.
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